Halifax County Historical Association Papers

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Halifax County Historical Association Papers

1816-2011

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0115

Papers (1961-2007) of the Halifax County Historical Association (N.C.) including correspondence of general nature concerned with group tours, bibliography sketch, financial records, membership rolls, itineraries etc. Various historical documents, photographs, ephemera and clippings relate to the history of Halifax County including Rosenwald schools and Brick School among many other topics (1816-2011). Other items (1972-2011) such as manuscripts, printed materials, computer diskettes, and a DVD concern the work of Maxville Burt Williams, a social studies teacher, principal, author and playwright and his works relating to the history of Halifax County, North Carolina, including First For Freedom a play about the Halifax Resolves of 1776; The Struggle, a play about Halifax County during the American Revolution; and The Schroonchers, a play about Eastern North Carolina in the summer of 1948.

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11620932

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Jones, Willie, 1741-1801

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O'Hara, James Edward, 1844-1905

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Halifax County Historical Association (Halifax County, N.C.)

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Rives, Ralph Hardee, 1930-2016

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